Not a Lottery

Amazingly great news – The Beauty has been shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson Awards. It’s a particularly big deal because Shirley Jackson is one of those writers who has meant a lot to me since I started reading dark fantasy and horror, and came across The Lottery. Only recently I discovered a novel of hers entitled Hangsaman and found it as compelling and strange and moving as only her writing can be. So I’ve been reading her work for decades.